LISK: Eric Faddis on the Gilgo Beach Killer Plea, Evidence, and What's Left
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🗓️ 3 April 2026
⏱️ 57 minutes
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Summary
Rex Heuermann — the accused Gilgo Beach Killer and Long Island Serial Killer — is reportedly expected to plead guilty to seven murders after nearly three years of fighting the charges. Every defense motion failed. The evidence was ruled admissible. And now, according to multiple sources, the accused LISK is ready to enter a plea.
Eric Faddis — defense attorney and former felony prosecutor — joins me for an extended conversation covering the entire Gilgo Beach Killer case. We break down the prosecution strategy that reportedly forced the plea, the deleted planning document and DNA evidence that made the case unwinnable, and the questions that remain unanswered even if Rex Heuermann pleads guilty.
Faddis brings the perspective of someone who has sat in both chairs. He explains what happens inside a defense when every legal avenue closes. He walks through the Frye hearing that admitted whole genome sequencing for the first time in New York. He examines the behavioral evidence — the planning, the timing, the alleged double life — and what it reveals about the accused Long Island Serial Killer's compartmentalized existence.
And he addresses what the Gilgo Beach Killer plea doesn't touch. Shannan Gilbert. The Bittrolff reversal. The remaining LISK victims. The families who get a hearing instead of a trial.
This is the complete conversation. Faddis holds nothing back — and neither do I.
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| 0:00.0 | This is Hidden Tiller's Live with Tony Brewski and Robin Dree. |
| 0:09.0 | A man charged with allegedly killing seven women across nearly two decades on Long Island |
| 0:14.2 | is now expected to walk into a courtroom and plead guilty. |
| 0:17.9 | After almost three years of maintaining his innocence, his defense, fought to throw out DNA, split the case in his separate trials, dismiss a murder charge for insufficient evidence, and point the finger at another convicted killer. |
| 0:33.1 | Rex Heurman reportedly has decided to stop fighting. |
| 0:42.2 | The question nobody can stop asking is, why now? |
| 0:48.2 | And whether this was always inevitable or whether the prosecution boxed him into a corner that he couldn't think his way out of. |
| 0:51.1 | Joining me to discuss this new development in this horrific case, |
| 0:58.8 | Eric Fattis, former prosecutor defense attorney, and of course my co-host Robin Drake, |
| 1:03.9 | retired FBI special agency for the counterintelligence behavioral analysis program for the FBI. |
| 1:09.6 | Eric, let's start here. |
| 1:11.6 | A man stands before a court for nearly three years saying he did not do this. |
| 1:17.2 | And then reportedly decides to plead guilty to seven murders from someone who's sat on both |
| 1:22.2 | sides of this, Eric. |
| 1:23.5 | What exactly is happening inside of those conversations between Rex and his attorney that seems to have brought us to this? |
| 1:34.2 | Sure. |
| 1:34.7 | So, you know, from the outset with a client, you kind of have a strategic plan. |
| 1:39.0 | You're kind of like, hey, we're going to explore these defenses. |
| 1:41.5 | We're going to assert these potential constitutional violations. We're |
| 1:45.6 | going to file these motions. And we're going to try to improve your legal position. But as the trial |
| 1:50.7 | is looming and as it gets closer, reality starts to really kick in. And the client hopefully |
| 1:58.2 | appreciates their exposure at that juncture. |
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